Well you don't seem to be getting many responses here. We just finished an evaluation of Aruba and Aerohive and have chosen Aerohive. Aerohive had an easier setup and what sold us was the no controller solution from Aerohive. With Aruba we would have needed redundant controllers for DR in case we lost a controller.

We are a manufacturing company with multiple sites, rf scanning, wifi laptops iphones and androids.

David Lambrecht wrote:

Hi all,

Can anyone give es some feedback in deciding what to tkae for wireless infrastructure

We are a company that wants to use rf scanning,ipphone, an laptop wifi

we have 1 main production and office and 3 brach offices 2 of them are also production

we want to scan in 3 sites

we already had quotes for both of them and need aprox 76 AP's

Aruba is verry expensive where Aerohive is much less

can anyone give some tips in deciding whats best controller (arube) or controllerless (aerohive)

for price we want aerihvi ebut is this the best solution whats the big difference

Great question, Fortunately, we don't have to put Aruba into the "controller" bucket only. Aruba Instant should be at cost parity with the other controller-less vendors and you get >10yrs of RF development and all of Aruba's latest innovation in a controller-less product. The controller is nice for certain architectural designs that require central control (central encryption, collapse vlans/larger mobility domains, etc), but it sounds like these wouldn't apply if you're already looking at controller-less solutions - the nice thing with Aruba is that you can convert Instant APs to work with a controller if you ever you want to take advantage of these.

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